An insight into the world of films from a girl obsessed with jellyfish

Day 71 – Mortal Kombat

So, after a bit of a flop with Captain America, my friend decided to give up on trying to please me and put on a film that is a guilty pleasure of his. And so that is where we find ourselves with Day 71.

Mortal Kombat. A bunch of humans are taken to an island to fight to save the world. Oh, and if you hadn’t guessed, it’s based on a game.

I knew this film was going to be bad. It’s a guilty pleasure, so it, by law, has to be bad.

It didn’t disappoint, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought.

Okay, so, the acting was bad. Bad bad bad bad bad. The villain had over-exaggerated facial expression that were badly contrasted to the main character’s under-achieving facial expressions. I mean, come on guys. Meet in the middle, surely? And both women in the film were pretty much annoying. And actually, now that I think about it, pretty much in the same boat as the two men: one over exaggerated whilst the other just existed. Film fail automatically.

But then you know what? Johnny Cage turned up. NOM! You really know how to keep my attention film, because Johnny Cage was really the only thing I was interested in as soon as they killed off Kano. Not really a massive spoiler there, but oopsie if you are sad that I ruined the film. But yeah, back to Cage. Not the best of actors, but a good source of comic relief, and a damn good source of eye-candy. Hells Yeah!

There’s also Goro. Now, he is rather amazing. From what my friend told me, he is a robot. And this is a robot done right. If you compare him to the CGI in this film, he is a breath of fresh air. I mean, okay, there were moment where it could have been improved, but I’ll forgive it. It’s okay. You did much better than nearly every other character in the film.

Oh. And don’t forget the music. That is some bad ass music. Even during the pretty crappy fight scenes, I found myself bopping along to the wonderful music. I kind of feel like I want it on my iPod. The music certainly grabbed me at the beginning, during the boring fight scenes, and just something that will more than likely stick with me for a good while.

Okay. So if you can get past the general awfulness of this film, it’s worth a watch. It’s one of those films you can sit and laugh at with friends, and not feel like you wasted your life. It is, like my friend stated, a guilty pleasure. Not really my first choice of guilty pleasures when it comes to films (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Pagemaster are two of those), but yeah, I will say that this might become one of them.